WSB-TV's Tony Thomas spoke to the woman after police filed charges against her for the apparent lie.

Hillary Black of Lawrenceville claimed the incident happened in a parking lot after she used an ATM in front of a store, police said. She claimed she had just gotten back inside her car when she said a Hispanic man climbed in her passenger seat, pulled out a box cutter and told her to drive, authorities said.

"She was very detailed in what happened," Cpl. Michele Pihera, with the Gwinnett County Police Department, told Thomas.

Gwinnett County police reports detail how the woman claimed the man demanded money, then gave her directions to an abandoned shopping center. She said she fought with him there and escaped.

According to police, it was all made up.

Police said surveillance video shows Black walking up to the Publix ATM, getting money and then leaving. Investigators said they can't find anyone else anywhere near her car.

"There is no clear reason right now that we can find as to why she did this," Pihera said.

Police said when confronted for a second time, Black confessed and agreed to turn herself in on a felony charge of making a false statement. So far, she hasn't.